More than a third of overseas study for UK higher education qualifications takes place in Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan and China, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show.In 2011-12,...
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The world’s most celebrated philosopher of law, hailed as a “genuine public intellectual”, has died.Ronald Dworkin was born on 11 December 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied at Harvard...
United StatesLegal challengeRepresentatives from the US legal profession have called for drastic changes in law education, including more practical training. The proposals come in the wake of...
A chance to learnAn academic has been honoured for his role in founding a school in Nepal for children with no prior access to education. Kevin Fossey, a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton...
University partnerships with broadcasters in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Oxfordshire allows those on journalism courses to hone skills
Welsh universities lead the UK in terms of output quality per pound invested, says report from Learned Society of Wales
Based in North Easton, Massachusetts from 1803, the Ames Shovel Company flourished during the gold rush era and, by 1879, was producing three-fifths of the world’s shovels.Today, 783 of them,...
University of Liverpool’s new professorial fellow brings practical experience to academia
European CommissionMarie Curie FellowshipAward winner: Andrew SutherlandInstitution: Aston UniversityValue: £185,026Polymers containing rhenium or molybdenum inorganic clusters for materials and...
Chris Turney reviews a history of attempts by Antarctic explorers to conquer the southern continent
Oversensitivity is bad news for the debate, argues Joanna Williams
Clémence Scalbert-Yucel on a worthy addition to the study of a state in flux
Gary Day hails a biography of an eminent Victorian
University of California, Los AngelesEarl FreymillerThe inaugural Bob and Marion Wilson endowed chair in the University of California, Los Angeles School of Dentistry has said that the accolade is “...